British and Foreign

Southland Times, Issue 11750, 1 June 1891, Page 2

British and Foreign

United Press Association— By Electkio Telegraph— Copyright. ]

LONDON, May 30. Receired 31st, 5.50 p.m.

Leading financiers in the city fear there will be a long continuance of dear money. The Economist Btatea that if the colonies wish to depend on the public for floating their loans the present system of inviting tenders must be abandoned, and it considers there is no reason why the Queensland loan ahould not have been subscribed if it had been kept open for two months at a fixed price of 92 and provision made for interest to accrue from the date of subscription. The leading bankers have agreed to meet when occasion arises and decide, with the Bank of England, the minimum rate of discount for three months' bill.

Among the Birthday honours Judge Windeyer and the Hon. Julian E. Salmons, Q.C., cf New South Wales, have been knighted, and the Hon. John Forresi, PreT^^°l w « Btern Australian, created a K. C. M . G. The gallam seamanship of Capt. Kane, of H.M.S. Calliope, during the severe hurricane at Apia in March, 1889, has been recognised by Her Majesty and he has been created a Companion of the Bath. The Archbishop of Canterbury is suffering from influenza. The team of Victorian Mounted riflemen have scored further successes at the Royal military tournament. j Obituary — Earl of Clancarty, cetat 57. His son, Wm. Frederick (Viscount Dunlo) who married Belle Bilton, burlesque actress, | succeeds to the title. Mat 31. Received Ist, 12.45 a. m. The Admiralty is negotiating with the Orient Steamship Co for^manning and working the Indian troopships. NBW YORK, May 30. Received 31st, 5.30 p.m. The strike of cokemen in ScotUdale, Pittsburg, has collapsed and those who went out are in a terribly distressed condition. OTTAWA, Mat 30. Received 31st, 5.30 p.m. Sir J. Macdonald, the Premier, is paralysed. It is believed that Sir J. S. D. Thompson, Minister of Justice, will reconstruct the Cabinet. WASHINGTON, Mat 30. Received 31st, 5.30 p.m. It is reported that the Chilian rebel steamer Etata, after which the United States cruisers had a fruitless chase, is making a voyage to Melbourne. French aggression in St. George's Bay, Newfoundland, is regarded here as an in* vasion of American rights under the Anglo. American treaty. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to steal the body of P. T. Barntrm, who died on 7th ult. ST. PETERSBURG, Mat 30. Received 31st, 5.30 p.m. Thirty thousand Jews have been ordered to leave Warsaw.

The Czar and Czarina have arrived at Moscow to attend the French Exhibition notwithstanding that three days before it opened four large boxes of dynamite had been discovered and were evidently intended to be used in a plot against the life ef the Czar. The Customs Department of the exhibition allowed the boxe& to pan the French and Russian frontiers unopened as they believed them to contain exhibit* of machinery. It is rumoured that a mine has been discovered leading from the residence of the Governor of Moscow across the road along which the Czar would proceed to the exhibition ; also that a second mine had been found under the railway line. Extra, ordinary precautions were taken against attempts on his Majesty's life, even triumphal |arches had been dismantled in the search for explosives. A feeling of terror exists in Moscow, and the owners of all houses commanding a view of the square where the Czar proposes to review the troops have beea ordered to close their windows.